---
type: "Bill"
title: "Signal jamming."
description: "Provides that a signal jammer may be seized. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures, offers for sale, imports, markets, sells, possesses, uses, or operates a signal jammer commits unlawful use of a signal jammer, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the offense is a Level 5 felony if a signal jammer is used to disrupt a component of a critical infrastructure facility or the communications of a public safety agency. Provides, for purposes of criminal statutes regarding offenses involving critical infrastructure, that a communications services facility includes wires and equipment used to provide communications service to a customer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 26"
citation: "Indiana SB 26 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Public Health", "Order", "and Decency", "PROPERTY; Generally", "TECHNOLOGY; Communication (Including Internet", "Phone Lines", "Print Media", "Radio", "and Television)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Cindy Ledbetter", "Gary Byrne", "James Tomes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93c20a5c-561b-4bf4-94dd-e3dc5f102025"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0026"
source_hash: "ca5663d4a3b8ae987dad7c528d547e54d009fbb0cfc4e9750545221cb507cb35"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 26 (2025) — Signal jamming.

Provides that a signal jammer may be seized. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures, offers for sale, imports, markets, sells, possesses, uses, or operates a signal jammer commits unlawful use of a signal jammer, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the offense is a Level 5 felony if a signal jammer is used to disrupt a component of a critical infrastructure facility or the communications of a public safety agency. Provides, for purposes of criminal statutes regarding offenses involving critical infrastructure, that a communications services facility includes wires and equipment used to provide communications service to a customer.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0026/SB0026.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0026/SB0026.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0026/SB0026.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0026/SB0026.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 26 - Ledbetter — **83–8** (pass) · lower
- SB 26 - Ledbetter - 3rd Reading — **88–6** (pass) · lower
- SB 26 - Tomes — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- SB 26 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — primary (person)
- Gary Byrne — primary (person)
- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Lorissa Sweet — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Tomes
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Senator Byrne added as third author
- **2025-01-13** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2025-01-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-21** Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-21** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2025-01-21** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 14: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-23** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2025-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2025-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Ledbetter
- **2025-01-24** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Representatives Sweet and Lindauer added as cosponsors
- **2025-03-31** Representative Pierce M added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 389: yeas 88, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Pol, Freeman and Byrne
- **2025-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Tomes and Taylor G
- **2025-04-10** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2025-04-14** House advisors appointed: Sweet, Lindauer and McNamara
- **2025-04-14** House conferees appointed: Ledbetter and Pierce M
- **2025-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2025-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 505: yeas 83, nays 8
- **2025-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2025-04-22** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 481: yeas 48, nays 1
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-06** Public Law 183 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93c20a5c-561b-4bf4-94dd-e3dc5f102025`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).